SanDisk Announces 64GB SSDs

June 4, 2007 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · Comment 

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I guess hard disk manufacture should be very well aware by now that flash disk is the future, today, SanDisk is grabbing headlines again with its 64GB 1.8″ UATA 5000 SSD.

One of the many advantages a flash disk is able to offer is the reduce in memory usage and a longer battery life, Dell is the first laptop company that is going to offer the 1.8″ SanDisk UATA 5000 in its Latitude D420 and Latitude D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks.

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SanDisk 2.5-inch 32GB SSD hard drive

March 13, 2007 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · Comment 

SanDisk intros 2.5-inch 32GB SSD hard drive

We all knows that flash drive would eventually replace the current hard drive, the evolution process probably would be around next year and SanDisk would love to lead the revolution with the introduction of a 32GB SSD SATA 5000 2.5-inch for laptop.

We all know that flash drive is way much faster that a typical hard disk and consume a mere 0.9 watt of electricity, which is almost half of what hard disk is consuming. What is the catch? With a price tag of $350, SanDisk has a long way before the would replace Seagate as the world’s biggest hard disk producer.

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Apple phone on track for early ‘07 ?

September 16, 2006 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · Comment 

Think secret has this article of Apple’s latest and soon to be release super toy for adults. Its a Apple Phone for the masses. Now, I can’t really imagine that, seeing that ipod is a run away success in the portal music player market doesn’t mean Apple’s phone will be the next Motorola Razr or the LG’s Chocolate.

Apple’s product has this cool factor, like marijuana. Hooking a person into wanting more but when it comes to serious buyers, Apple lost it all. Just take a look at their ipod player. Every year they increase the capacity and shrink it a little, there is virtually no major improvement. Yeah, it plays video - so what? Sandisk Sansa music player doesn’t have the cool factor that ipod has, but interm of features, Sansa is loaded and the best part is it has a FM Tuner.

At the time, Apple was said to be encountering “significant technological hurdles” in its attempts to essentially re-invent the cell phone with an innovative ground-up design. Since then, Apple has scaled back its ambitions and has opted to go with several off-the-shelf parts for what will be the first of at least two or three different phones that sources say Apple hopes to deliver in 2007.

Apple’s product are usually over-price with limited features and locked into a whole of its own. Bill Gates was right when he predicted the death of mac during th 80’s and early this year, again he predicted that iPod will share the same fate, a slow and painful death. Let’s face it, to be able to lock a person into a single format is an up hill battle, for example the mp3 player format is the de facto of digital music, not even Microsoft with their WMA format can unseat it, let alone Apple’s AAC format - unless Apple open up their iTunes digital store and allow competitors with the ability to sell AAC format.

I’m thinking of getting a portal music player, flash based and there is a very high percentage that it won’t be Apple’s iPod. Sandisk Sansa is too good to be true, the smaller version runs on AAA battery meaning to say that I don’t have to buy those expensive Li-on battery like how Apple force their loyal customer replace an expansive battery.

Apple is good, but it could have been great if Steve Jobs were to run it like a business man, but then again, if Steve were to run it that way, then Apple would not have been what it is today - unique. Let us hope the next generation iPod comes with a FM Tuner. Forget about the video and games, I’m too old for that.

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